Are ChatGPT, Bard and Dolly 2.0 Trained On Pirated Content? via @sejournal, @martinibuster

The big search news this week from Google was around MUM, Multitask Unified Model. Which is different than BERT but similar in that it helps Google better understand language & make it easier to get helpful responses to complex search needs. Well, it won’t go live for months to years and when it does, Google will let us know.

Twitter has just announced the end of CoTweets. They put out a statement in their Help Center that the new feature, which started in July, will be sunset by the end of the day on January 31, 2023. A CoTweet is a tweet that has two authors’ profile pictures and user names. A CoTweet appears on both users’ profiles and is shown to all of their followers. Twitter warned us about this. When the CoTweet experiment was announced, it was also made known that this may […]

Google’s John Mueller confirmed Google had a crawling issue – specifically saying “crawling for the caches had slowed down for some sites.” Google said it was fixed “a while” ago and added that “it wasn’t widespread, and that there were no negative effects overall.”